Harrow-tooth.



11.1. 111111.31161: a 11.- G. ROLAND. BABBOW TOOTH.

UPLIOAHOI IXLBD AUG. 27, 1912.

1,061,570. Patented may 13, 1913.

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ROBERT 1. BIUILEDGE AND RANDSOME G. BOLAND, 0F SCRANTON, TEXAS.

HARBOW-TOOTH.

Lemme.

Speoioation o! Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 191 3.

Application lod August 27, 1912. Serial No. 717,403.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, Roasn'r P. Rumeur. and Ranosoam G. Bouma, citizens of the United States, residin at Scranton, in the county of Eastland andr State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harrow-Teeth, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to barrow teeth and has as its object to so constructed that y its use furrow crusts may be more e'ectually broken than by teeth now used for this purpose.

Another vaim of the invention is to provide a harrow tooth so constructed that it will not be liable to injure the owing plants but will thoroughly break t e crust of the furrow at each side of the row of plants.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following deserption and accompanying drawing, in which 2 Figure 1 is a erspective view of the harrow tooth embo ying thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. B is a horizontal sectional View through the same on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred lo in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the saine reference characters.

In the drawing the reference character A indicates in general a portion of an ordinary ridinv cultivator or barrow u on the beams of w iich are to be mounted t 1e harrow teeth embodying the present invention. 'lhe sup orting standard for each tooth is ndicated)in the drawing by the numeral 1 andis clamped to the beam 1n the same manner as is the standard of an ordinary cultivater shovel as shown at 2 in Fig. 1 of the drawing. Ifear its lower end the standard 1 is formed with openings 8 for the passae of bolts which are designed to secure the tooth shank to the standard, as will be presently pointed out. The shank of thc tooth is in the .form of a plate 4 having openings 5 through which and the openin s 3 are passed bolts 6, these being the bots above referred to as securing the tooth shank to its standard. As will be observed from inspection of Fig. 8 of the drawing the shank of the tooth is transversel curved and has its convex side presented i'orwardly it being provided at its lower end with wings rovide a harrow tooth- 7 which prciect laterally and downwardly in o posite irections and which are curved in t e same arc as the bod -portion of the shank. The lower edge of t e shank and its wings 7 are curved substantially on the arc of a circle', as indicated at 8 so that the shank will straddle the rid e of a furrow through which the teeth are rawn.

The teeth roper are indicated by the numeral 9 and) as illustrated in the several figures of the drawing, a air of these teeth is supported by each of tiie Shanks 4. The upper end of cach tooth is welded, or otherwise secured to the rear side of one of the wings 7 and the outer end portion of the wing is bent to extend rearwardly and downwardly as at 10 so as to embrace one side or face of the tooth at its upper end, the ad'acent portion of the wing embracing the a jacent forwardly presented side or face of the tooth, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawin It will be observed from inspection of Fig. 3 that the teeth are square in cross section and that they are so disposed and supported b the shank that each will have one of its e ges between the adjacent faces, presented forwardly. The lower end of each tooth is ta ered and is preferably substantially 0 pyramidal form, as indicated at 11.

From the foregoing description of the invention it will be seen that there is provided a harrow tooth which may be readily applied to any ordinary cultivator or hnrrow frame and which, while substantial in con struction und capable of resisting shocks, will be to a certain extcnt,rcsilicnt, due to the curvature given the shank and its wings` it being observed from inspection of Fig. 3 of the drawing that the standard 1 is ol' less width than the said shank at. its` wings 7 so that the wings are free to yield in :i rearward direction, to a slight degree, as the teeth l) are passing through a fui-rou', the crust of which is to be broken.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new isz- 1. A device of the class described, coniprisin a' Shank having wings extendingr atera y in opposite directions therefrom, and a tooth carried by each wing.

2. A device of the class described, coin risin',Y a shank having wings extending atera ly in opposite directions thcretroni and curved to extend downwardly und rearwardly, and a tooth projecting downwardly from each wing.

3. A device of the class described,compris ing a shank having `wings extending laterally in opposite directions therefrom, and a tooth carried by each wing, each tooth being rectangular in cross-section and having an edge lEresented forwardly.

device of the class described, com- 5. A device of the class described, comprising a shank formed from a plate having wlngs extending laterally in o posits directions therefrom, the said p ate and the wings being transversely curved with their convex sides presented forwardl and a tooth su ported at the outer en of each wing an projecting downwardl therefrom.

In testimony wiereof we e x our signatures in resence of two witnesses.

ROBE T P. RUTLEDGE. [L.s.] RANDSOME G. BOLAND. [1.. 5.] Witnesses:

J. A. REYNOLDS, F. S. BoLAND.

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